

He stayed until the animators' strike in 1941 as an animator on The Nifty Nineties, The Little Whirlwind, Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo and The Reluctant Dragon. He went to California at age 22 to work on Donald Duck cartoons at Walt Disney Studios in 1935. His family moved to Bridgeport, Connecticut, when he was only two. was born in Philadelphia on August 25, 1913. The strip earned Kelly a Reuben Award in 1951. Pogo was distributed by the Post-Hall Syndicate. The strip was written for both children and adults, with layers of social and political satire targeted to the latter.

Set in the Okefenokee Swamp in the Southeastern United States, Pogo followed the adventures of its anthropomorphic animal characters, including the title character, an opossum. Pogo was a daily comic strip that was created by cartoonist Walt Kelly and syndicated to American newspapers from 1948 until 1975.
